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"Purple haze": Dunbar's lyric legacy.(Paul Laurence Dunbar)
"The measure of our songs is our desires" --Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Prometheus" 1. 30
"Dunbar" was a name that had a certain gravitational force about it in my youth. For me, as for so many of my generation, it was an ever multiplying geographical designator long before it attached itself in my mind to matters literary. As I moved about from place to place, I found it attached to hotels, hospitals, schools. By the time my family had lodged itself near the nation's capital, I knew that this name had belonged to a famous poet, and so it made a certain sense to me when I later learned that he was the same Dunbar in whose memory DC's Dunbar High School had been named. ...
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- Magazine article from: African American Review Robinson, Lillian S. Robinson, Greg June 22, 2007 700+ words
...of the twentieth century, Paul Laurence Dunbar's reputation shifted between...schoolchild knew the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, which was recited in school...grow up to be "the lady Paul Laurence Dunbar!" (Brooks 56). Much...
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence 1872–1906
- Reference information from: Contemporary Black Biography Johnson, Anne January 1, 1995 700+ words
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 – 1906 Poet, short...writer, novelist, librettist Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first important...the Dawn: Reinterpretations of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Giovanni added: “...
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- Magazine article from: African American Review Leuchtenmuller, Thomas June 22, 2007 700+ words
...and die!--Anne Spencer Paul Laurence Dunbar is mainly known as a poet...Primeau 3): I am referring to Paul Laurence Dunbar and his drama "Herrick...a copy was found in the Paul Laurence Dunbar Papers of the Ohio Historical...
- Herbert Woodward Martin and Ronald Primeau, eds. In His Own Voice: The Dramatic...
- Magazine article from: African American Review Bruce, Dickson D., Jr. June 22, 2003 700+ words
...compendium of writings by Paul Laurence Dunbar, most of which have not...important volumes as The Paul Laurence Dunbar Reader, edited by Jay Martin...and The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Joanne M. Braxton...
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- The Southern Literary Journal Ramsey, William M. September 22, 1999 700+ words
...literary materials." --Paul Laurence Dunbar, letter to Alice Ruth Moore...his simple children!" --Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Negroes of the Tenderloin...question also crystallizes Paul Laurence Dunbar's (1872-1906) self...
- Intimate intercessions in the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
- Magazine article from: African American Review Gabbin, Joanne June 22, 2007 700+ words
...Anner 'Lizer's Stumblin' Block" (Dunbar, Best Stories) Much of the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar reveals the intimate intercessions...penned them. In The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, "A Prayer" illustrates his poetic...
- "I know why the caged bird sings!": Dunbar in China.(Paul Laurence Dunbar's...
- Magazine article from: African American Review Li, Xilao June 22, 2007 700+ words
Paul Laurence Dunbar used his poetry to express frustration and disappointment at the...This paper presents a brief account of the Chinese response to Paul Laurence Dunbar since the early 1920s. The presence of the African American writer...
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- Magazine article from: African American Review Mullen, Harryette June 22, 2007 700+ words
Like Paul Laurence Dunbar, and like many people who don...black school and church programs. Dunbar's name and poetry would have been...Heritage" stamps, including the 1975 Paul Laurence Dunbar commemorative. I may be in the last...